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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
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